Watching "Big Think" Videos for Credit at Harvard and Yale

Big Think, the New York-based publisher and syndicator of short videos of thought leaders in business, academia, politics and the arts, now provides video-centric courses to top universities including Harvard and Yale.

Students watch a 12-part series of one-hour presentations along with supplemental reading material and receive credit.

It is also offering these videos to general public, subscription-based portal called Floating University.

We spoke with Big Think CEO and co-founder Victoria Brown for this explanation of the new academic offering.

Brown says that the company's short, 3-5 minute, thought leadership videos are getting two million video views per month.